Car covered in speakers makes music out of noise

The Sound Taxi toured London last week collecting music samples from random street noise in a project named Make the City Sound Better. The samples are then mixed into a groove – real time. Production software on board the taxi gathers street noise via microphones mounted on top of the car, mixes it real time,…

Security researchers have identified a new botnet that is controlled by attackers from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server running as a hidden service inside the Tor anonymity network. Unable to determine its real location or sniff its encrypted traffic, law enforcement are going to have a tough time shutting it down.

We present a collection of Geeky jokes – Part III.

Burns are categorized in terms of the degree of the burn. Each degree of burn relates to the increased severity of the burn. You’ve surely heard of horrible third degree burns but did you know that there were really six degrees of burns?

Ah, the power of Facebook. As the BBC reports, a 15-year-old Dutch girl posted an invitation to her 16th birthday party on Facebook but wasn’t real clear on the use of Facebook privacy controls. She forgot to set the Facebook event to “private”. After 20,000 replies, the girls realized she (and the town of Haren)…

Here’s a collection of funny computer programmer jokes. Warning: they are fairly technical so don’t expect to understand the punch line unless you are a computer programmer.

The banks of JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America are being increasingly targeted this week, in a systematic denial-of-service (DoS) attack against their websites. National security officials told NBC News that the cyber attacks are originating from the government of Iran and as a result, the cyber threat level was raised from “elevated” to…

Keep ‘em coming. More geek jokes. Bad or corrupt header, go get a haircut Unrecognized input, get out of the class Warning! Buffer overflow, close the tumbler ! WinErr 547: LPT1 not found… Use backup… PENCIL & PAPER Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes Best…

The Space Shuttle Endeavor passed over Southern California today, riding on the back of a Boeing 747 and flanked by a lone jet fighter, on route to its final destination – the California Science Center. This is the last flight for a space shuttle. Check the photo montage here.

With what surely must be an item on Batman’s utility belt, the new Ostrich Pillow, created by Kawamura-Ganjavian, lets you create your own Fortress of Solitude and catch a few Zzzzzzz’s anywhere, anytime.